With an education in electronic engineering, Alan worked at numerous radio and television stations in Ontario, and at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto, before becoming Director of Television Engineering in the media centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, where he remained for 25 years before taking early retirement to write in 1994. Sherlock Holmes would be a fan of Flavia.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Bradley fields her struggle with childish feelings and growing pains against her supreme intelligence and sleuthing skills. This child prodigy in the realm of chemistry is still learning how to read people’s emotions and decipher her own. Readers of the series will have learned by now that the mystery is almost secondary in the series to the inner thoughts and machinations of Flavia’s astute mind. A long with the film crew, the heavy snowfall leaves everyone stranded and people sleeping in Buckshaw’s hall.Īnd then a body is found, strangled with a length of film in a staged scene that has Flavia and her dear Inspector Hewitt carrying on twin investigations into this classic “locked room” mystery. Unfortunately, a huge blizzard arrives, snowing in most of the Bishop Lacey villagers who’ve arrived for the benefit. Wyvern and Duncan are quickly pressed into performing the classic balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet as a fundraiser for the village church roof. When Wyvern’s leading man, Desmond Duncan, is added to the mix, even a few minor crew accidents don’t seem important. Her father’s desperate financial situation has led him to rent out his beloved estate to, of all things, a film company.įlavia’s sisters are enthralled: the flirtatious Feeley and bookish Daphne’s excitement is contagious, and even Flavia becomes a bit smitten when film star Phyllis Wyvern appears, along with the cast and crew needed for the few scenes to be filmed there.
It’s near Christmas at Buckshaw, the de Luce’s decaying English estate, and eleven-year-old Flavia is in her chemistry laboratory, whipping up a potion guaranteed to prove once and for all if Saint Nick is a reality by gluing him to Buckshaw’s roof.
The series has won multiple awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Barry Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, the Dilys Winn Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award. The delightful chemistry whiz Flavia de Luce is back in Alan Bradley’s fourth mid-20th century series mystery featuring the youngest daughter of Colonel de Luce.
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